Travel, Code, and Engineering

Tag: electrical-engineering


LED Night Light Tear Down

I recently bought a pack of LED Night Lights from China on Amazon. They were very cheaply made, so of course I wondered what they were like on the inside. Today I tried to unplug one from the wall...


Modifying a Laptop for Improved Cooling

My aging laptop was having trouble keeping up. It slowed to a crawl. Even opening up more than one tab in Chrome seemed to be too much for it. That's when I decided to take things into my own hands...


How to Fix a Selfie Stick

My wife recently bought a selfie stick at Target for $5. It worked the first couple times she tried it after bringing it home from the store. However, problems emerged a few weeks later when she...


Reverse Engineering an Electric Blanket

My electric blanket has a "feature" that I really hate. It turns off automatically after "8 hours". I put "8 hours" in quotation marks, because I don't believe that's true. It seems like it often...


PCB Stackup Thickness

I just found out today that there is a standard for how thick a PCB should be: 0.062 inches (1.57 mm). This is true for 2, 4 and 6 layer boards, at least.